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Notes on Captain William Luti USN Retired

Assessment: The WL model indicates that Luti is a way over his head and probably manipulated by agents of influence of a foreign power. His loyalty and patriotism are certainly open to question based on his pattern of activities and associations and should be looked into by the proper authorities. I suspect that he has been involved in the planting of disinformation and propaganda designed to push the US to invade Iraq. If this is the case he may be subject to charges. If there was an attempt to "deal up" to break the case Luti seems like an easy target.

Is William J. Luti a spy for Israel ? Is Bill Luti an Israeli mole operating under Doug feith and Paul Wolfowitz. CBS indicates that an analyst is "a" mole for Israel but I suspect that there are several. The Office of Special plans under Luti apperas to have operated as a Mossad propaganda machine. One has to assume that if the FBI is investigating special scrutiny must be applied to Abram N. Shulsky, Director of Office of Special Plans and F. Michael Maloof. If it is an analyst then watch Shulsky and Maloof. My advice to the FBI is too lean on Bill Luti since I think he is most likely to crack. They may find more then just one mole in the Pentagon.

See FBI Suspects Israel Has Mole in Pentagon -- CBS

William J. Luti
Deputy Undersecretary of Defense for Near Eastern and South Asian Affairs

Runs Office of Special Plans under Douglas Feith. Not widely trusted or respected outside of NeoCon circles.

Deputy Under Secretary of Defense for Near Eastern South Asian Affairs and Special Plans William Luti at a Pentagon press conference on June 4, 2003. DoD photo by Helene C. Stikkel. (Released)

Luti not trusted by State Department

Senior State Department officials are said to be particularly displeased with William Luti, the Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Near East and South Asian Affairs. Luti, a retired Navy captain and Gulf War combat veteran who served on Vice-President Dick Cheney's staff last summer, is seen by people at State as so obsessed with an immediate overthrow of Saddam that he hasn't thought through the consequences. Luti's supporters, however, include Richard Perle. The New Yorker: Fact

Luti Called Gen. Zinni a Traitor

In an official meeting at which Kwiatkowski was present, Luti openly called Marine General, former Chief of Central Command, and Middle East envoy Anthony Zinni, a "traitor" for having reservations about the march to war, and open contempt and calls for Secretary of State Colin Powell to resign were common. What she observed until her voluntary early retirement was nothing less than a full-scale assault on the intelligence and policymaking apparatus of the United States. She witnessed intelligence and careful analysis being replaced with propaganda, falsehoods and manipulation and fed to the Congress and the Executive Office of the President. This "fear peddling" was, Kwiatkowski writes, "designed to take Congress and the country into a war of executive choice, a war based on false pretenses." Dual Loyalties: Pro-Israel influence on US policy

"Office of Special Plans is overseen by Under-Secretary of Defense William Luti, a retired Navy captain. Luti was an early advocate of military action against Iraq, and, as the Administration moved toward war and policymaking power shifted toward the civilians in the Pentagon, he took on increasingly important responsibilities." The New Yorker: Fact

http://www.amconmag.com/12_15_03/article3.html

http://rightweb.irc-online.org/ind/schulsky/schulsky.php

Luti is seen as Cheney's man in the DOD. He does not appear to fit the dual loyalty profile but he is at the very center of the "goings on" in the Pentagon. Agent of influence, fellow traveler, or maybe just not that bright it is hard to tell just where Luti fits into the Likudnik apparatus.

The Office of Special Plans relied heavily on data gathered (or manufactured) by Israeli intelligence agencies particularly Mossad and also on information provided by Ahmad Chalabi's Iraqi National Congress, or I.N.C. To lend credibility to the doctored material the same information was leaked to Likudnik shills such as Judith Miller of the New York Times and Columnist William Safire. By citing anonymous sources reporting the same information they could make the phony data look more solid.

Dual Loyalties: US DOD: Feith and Luti on U.S. Intelligence Issues in Iraq and Iran - 6-4-03

Dual Loyalties: Tufts E-News -- William J. Luti : A Defining Role

Dual Loyalties: Dr. William J. Luti: Strategic Responses to New Security Challenges

Dual Loyalties: The New Yorker: Fact - Luti, Wolfowitz, and Chalabi

Pentagon on Feb. 11, 2004. Deputy Assistant Secretary of
Defense for Special Plans and Near Eastern and South Asian
Affairs William Luti. DoD photo by R. D. Ward. (Released)

DoD Briefing on Policy and Intelligence Matters
The Feith & Luti Show June 4, 2003

Seen on http://rightweb.irc-online.org/ind/luti/luti.php

"William J. Luti Deputy Undersecretary of Defense for Near Eastern and South Asian Affairs

Institutional Affiliations
- Center for Security Policy: Participant in various CSP events, including its 2002 Keeper of the Flame award ceremony, which also counted on the participation of Douglas Feith, Peter Rodman, Dov Zakheim, Pete Aldridge, Richard Perle, and James Schlesinger
Government Posts/Panels/Commissions
- Special Adviser to Vice President Richard Cheney for National Security Affairs (Middle East) (2001)
- Commander, USS Guam (1997-98)
- Office of House Speaker Newt Gingrich: Congressional Fellow (1996-97)
- Served on USS John F. Kennedy during 1991 Gulf War
Education
- The Citadel: B.A. in History
- U.S. Naval War College: M.A. in National Security and Strategic Studies
- Tufts University: M.A. and Ph.D. in International Relations"
STRATEGIC STUDIES GROUP XVIII http://www.nwc.navy.mil/ssg/former.htm